Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However the Crimson's showing over this period is deceptive. As is the case in many of Harvard's traditional rivalries, the Crimson holds the edge now because it piled up a large number of victories way back when--long before the other team got wind of the finer points of football...
...went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes and the basement was made into a well-equipped workshop, while the number of courses grew steadily. In 1940, the Center broke away from the Boston organization and set itself up as an independent Brach of the Social Union...
This term's enrollment of almost 1300 is an all-time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable...
Answering an objection from the floor, Griswold debunked the old idea that one out of three students at Harvard Law are flunked out. "Actually, the number who don't come back after the first year is about 10 percent," he said. "And half of those turn out to be at some disadvantage, such as poor health, which would handicap them at any school...
...dull sheet called "The Link," a junto led by some energetic Princetonians decided to put out a rival. They infiltrated the mimeographing room one night when the "Link" staff was carousing, helped themselves to a couple of thousand pieces of mimeographing paper, and printed up a parody number called "The Missing Link...